Dr Anna Clayfield
Programme Leader for BA Modern Languages & Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies
Anna Clayfield is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies and Programme Leader for the BA Modern Languages. Anna joined the University of Chester in 2015, having previously taught at Cardiff University and the University of Nottingham, where she completed her PhD in Latin American Studies in 2013. Anna is passionate about contemporary Latin American culture, politics and history, particular in relation to Cuba, as well as the history and culture of mainland Spain.
Anna teaches on a wide range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her main teaching interests lie in using culture, such as film, literature and visual art more broadly, to explore the history and society of Spain and Latin America. Anna also teaches final-year Spanish-English translation, alongside language and grammar at Levels 4 and 5.
Anna's research to date has centred around Cuban history since 1959, with a particular focus on how the legacy of guerrilla warfare is present in Cuban political culture and discourse. More broadly, Anna is interested in revolution and armed struggle in Latin America and Quebec during the Cold War and beyond. Her current research examines memories of Cuba's volunteer militia programmes that were established in the 1960s.
Books
The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution. 2019. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Co-edited books
Kirk, Emily J., Anna Clayfield & Isabel Story. 2018. Cuba’s Forgotten Decade: How the 1970s shaped the Revolution. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Kirk, Emily J., Isabel Story & Anna Clayfield. Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness in Cuba: Adaptation and Management. Lanham: Lexington Books. (Forthcoming spring 2021).
Book chapters
Clayfield, A.C. (2021). Vive la révolution...tout de suite! : la dimension internationale du militantisme armé au Québec dans les années 1960. In T. Obergöker/ J. F. H. Hennuy (Eds.), Mai 68, une approche transatlantique (pp. 41-56). Peter Lang.
“Bastión: the shaping of a pueblo combatiente and natural disaster management”. In Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness in Cuba: Adaptation and Management, edited by Emily J. Kirk, Isabel Story and Anna Clayfield. Lanham: Lexington Books. (Forthcoming spring 2021).
“Militarized by Moscow? Re-examining Soviet influence on Cuba in the 1970s.” In Cuba’s Forgotten Decade: How the 1970s shaped the Revolution, edited by Emily J. Kirk, Anna Clayfield and Isabel Story, 71-85. Lanham: Lexington Books.
“Antonio Maceo y Grajales”. 2016: In Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, edited by Franklin Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press.
Book reviews
May 2020: Pablo Alonso González, Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2018), in Journal of Latin American Studies (Cambridge University Press), Vol. 52, No. 2, pp.460-462.
Public scholarship
“Olive Green Graphics”, Cuba Counterpoints.
- BA (Manchester)
- MA (Manchester)
- PhD (Nottingham)